Make steel tofu press
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We are often asked where to find non-plastic tofu presses. There are a couple of places you can get wooden ones online, but the really nice ones are stainless steel. So we thought we will make the heavy duty tofu press and show you how to do it at the same time. If you have interested stainless tofu mold, please feel free to contact with me or just make one as follows.
2 medium (about 8.5″ x 4.5″) loaf pans: the cheapest you can find; they need to be able to nest
a drill, with 1/8″ and 7/32″ bits (or thereabouts) that are good drilling for metal (the ones I bought said “soft metals” and worked fine)
sand paper
Unless you plan to make more than a pound of tofu at a time, don’t buy large loaf pans. Your tofu curds won’t fill it deeply and you’ll end up with very flat tofu.
Drill holes with the smaller bit, using the indents as your guide if you made them. When the holes are all drilled, the next thing to do is sand them smooth, on both sides.
Anyway, the drilled holes were pretty smooth to begin with and a brief session with the sandpaper finished them right up in no time.
Then vacuum or sweep up all those metal shavings. They’d be no fun to step on barefoot! And that’s it! The press is done.
